New Brunswick Public Health is reporting seven new COVID-19 cases Tuesday, and 11 more recoveries, dropping the total number of active cases to 116 in the province. The new cases include four cases in Zone 2 and three new cases in Zone 3. To date, the number of confirmed cases in...
Ontario has reported 304 new cases of COVID-19 on Monday, bringing the total number of cases in the province to 22,957. The latest number tracks with the increases recorded last week — all of which fell roughly between 300 and 350 new cases per day. The Ontario health ministry...
Montreal police are investigating a confrontation between dockworkers and port managers that erupted in violence Wednesday night amid a longshoremen strike. Police received a call at around 7 p.m. that a crowd of dockworkers had threatened and attacked Montreal port executives and their security guards near the Olympic Stadium, said...
The Ontario government is providing $2 million to support festivals and events at Ontario Place this summer. “Ontario's heritage, sport, tourism and culture industries were hit first, the hardest, and will take the longest to recover from COVID-19,” Lisa MacLeod, Ontario’s Minister of Heritage, Sport, Tourism and Culture Industries said...
The region's health unit has confirmed 53 new COVID cases in Simcoe County and two in Muskoka District since it last reported on Friday. The health unit is reporting 16 new cases in Barrie, including two girls and one boy under 18, all close contacts; four men and two...
An Eastern Ontario MPP and outspoken opponent of COVID-19 public health rules says his son was Tasered in a dispute over mask-wearing in downtown Perth on Friday night. Randy Hillier, the independent MPP for Lanark-Frontenac-Kingston, has sent a letter to Ontario Provincial Police Commissioner Thomas Carrique saying his son, Clayton,...
When a Canadian soldier crashed his truck through security gates around Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s home and prowled the grounds with three loaded guns, he said he hoped to provoke “a wake-up call and a turning point” for the country, revealing political intent behind the violence that is “quite...
The Ontario government announced Friday that the Peel region is moving into the red zone of restrictions. “The numbers that we’re seeing in Peel and specifically Brampton, they’re just going through the roof,” Ontario Premier Doug Ford said on Friday. “It’s out of control right now and we have react.” This...
Total COVID-19 cases in Canada: 17,045 diagnoses and 344 deaths (as of April 7, 10:30 a.m. ET) Alberta - 1,348 cases, including 24 deaths (361 resolved) British Columbia - 1,266 cases, 39 deaths (783 resolved) Manitoba - 204 cases, 2...
Hundreds of people have been told to self-isolate in Kingston, Ont., after 18 cases have been linked to a nail salon. On Friday, medical officer of health Kieran Moore said that eight more cases were identified in the past 24 hours. An outbreak was declared a day earlier by Kingston,...